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Cisco announced innovative products targeted specifically for small company IT networks and designed to provide exceptional levels of security and connectivity for a budget-friendly cost. Products introduced by Cisco were the Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker, the Cisco Small Business series NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems, and the latest version of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System (SBCS).

The Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker is a purpose-built antispam and antivirus security product that virtually eliminates email threats with no set up. Cisco's NSS2000 and NSS3000 Small Business Network Storage Systems are economical small-footprint NAS devices that provide security for valuable information and enable workers to exchange files effortlessly. Cisco's Smart Business Communications System Release 1.4, a full collaboration and communications system that seamlessly connects sites, workers, and clients however dispersed. The latest version incorporates the debut of a wireless desktop Internet Protocol (IP) handset with Bluetooth capabilities. To see Cisco's press release, refer to Cisco Announces Networking Products for Small Companies.

Cisco Spam and Virus Blocker Appliance
The Spam and Virus Blocker appliance safeguards small companies by offering powerful protection against junk mail, viruses and worms and other email attacks to guard your system and business data while at the same time enhance productivity. Because the product stops spam right out of the box and updates automatically, it eliminates the expense and hassle associated setup and continuing and administration. By eliminating spam, Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker helps the performance of networks, application servers, and workstations. The Spam Blocker is a comprehensive defense against email-born threats by including a physical appliance, intelligent software, continuous patches, and product support in a unified bundle.

Notable benefits of the Spam and Virus Blocker appliance are:

• Accuracy: Assists to make sure that email threats and junk mail are caught and business email is accepted.
• Continuous automatic updates: Non-stop communication with SenderBase security, a network database of email security threats, ensures that your Spam & Virus Blocker installs the latest updates to safequard your business email.
• Easy setup and use: User-friendly web-based installation tools permit you to install Cisco's Spam and Virus Blocker appliance in almost any network within minutes, delivering immediate security for your business.
• Streamlined management: As soon as your company deploys the Cisco's Spam Blocker, you get junk mail and virus protection with minimal extra effort required of your IT group.

NSS2000 and NSS3000 Network Storage Systems
The Cisco Small Business NSS2000 and 3000 provide the robust security and advanced data backup features that your company requires, at a cost small companies can handle. The NSS3000 accommodates as much as to 4 TB of data and as many as 15 simultaneous clients on each enclosure, offering the optimal answer for holding, sharing, and backing up your mission-critical business data. As distinct from less sophisticated network-attached storage (NAS) alternatives, the Cisco NSS3000 delivers the advanced archiving, cryptography, user authentication, and high uptime your company requires.

The Cisco Small Business NSS3000 four-Bay Gigabit Storage System Chassis supports any certified hard drive. The product offers a range of features in a desktop footprint engineered specifically for small companies. The Cisco NSS3000 Storage enclosure also provides you the flexibility to configure the system without any connected hard drives, to reconfigure the product at any time, and to chain several NAS chassis with one another, offering a solution that can continually grow with your business.

Your company can utilize the Cisco NSS2000 or NSS3000 Network Storage Systems to:

• Automatically back up important data from every desktop and application server in your business
• Provide centralized preservation and sharing of key files
• Run Continuous Data Protection to copy unattended each version of every file saved by workers, allowing your company to restore files quickly
• Store and archive video from your company's surveillance system

Cisco SBCS
The Smart Business Communications System Version 1.4 is a simple and comprehensive sharing and communications solution that enables small businesses to connect telecommuters, mobile workers and office workers in separate sites to enhance their options to communicate with clients and colleagues. In the latest release, the affordable system offers enhanced wireless support such as the industry's first wireless desktop VoIP phone with Bluetooth, the Cisco SPA525G wireless IP phone, which enables companies to expand cost-effectively by adding handsets in locations where traditional phone wires or Ethernet wiring is not present or cannot easily be run.

Other new pieces of the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 1.4 include:

• The Cisco 520 Secure Router to help guard the company's infrastructure and give employees safe connectivity to the Internet and key business information from inside or outside the office
• The Cisco Configuration Assistant Version 1.9 to enable partners to simplify the setup and installation of solutions designed specifically for certain businesses

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